Their bodies were wrapped in tape, which was “keeping them together,” but it was not tightly binding them, Chief Shea said. “It is entirely credible that the girls entered the water alive,” Chief Shea said. The sisters lived with their mother and at least two brothers, according to neighbors and the Arab News, an English-language Saudi Arabian newspaper. Their father traveled back and forth between the two countries, relatives told the news outlet. “The news of her death is tragic,” a spokesman for the university said.

Source: New York Times November 03, 2018 00:21 UTC